fazenda
noun
fazenda is a noun meaning “A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-Z-E-N-D-A, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fazenda is fazendas.
What does fazenda mean?
noun
- 1
A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fazenda
- fazendas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fazenda?
Fazenda appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fazenda in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a Brazilian plantation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fazenda |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fazenda come from?
Borrowed from Portuguese fazenda (“farm”). Doublet of hacienda and faena.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).